Gliders > Slope Soaring
Ireland visit this spring
Fred:
The best of the photos are online for a little while now, but link not available yet.. Still trying to make an intro text for the gallery :) Need to get my brain in gears!
Happy Days:
--- Quote from: "Fred" --- Need to get my brain in gears!
--- End quote ---
Never mind the gears Fred,....You just need a brain :P
Okay,.I'm outa' here...................................
K.
selleri:
Here are some of my pictures and more can be found in my album.
http://myndir.frettavefur.net/thumbnails.php?album=224
For a moment I wasn't sure we were in the right place!
Coffee and tea...
Part of the group.
Filip 600 being set up, thanks for the loan John, sweet little thing it is.
DG1000, my main plane for the duration, very nice, thanks for the loan Fred.
He seems to be having fun that chap.
Also tried a Skua, thanks L.Keith!
Hmmm, that looks familiar!
Fred's 1/3 Ka8.
This little girl was quite enthusiatic about the models and even got a quick go at the sticks.
Hmmm, that looks familiar!
Never a dull moment.
A tad white on Sunday but we didn't let that stop us!
Libelle from Dreamflight.
The view was quite nice.
Only one walk of shame for me but as the wind was on a holiday I didn't feel too bad about it! ;)
Monday wasn't looking to be a good day, dead calm and not even enough lift for the Libelle, so we went for a tourist drive of the countryside.
But as someone said good things come to those that wait and as the day progressed the wind picked up and we got a chance to do some climbing!
Happy Days:
My word, some quite stunning pictures there. :shock: (You like your multi passage shots don’t you) My favourite picture was #25. I think that was very good. :clap: ( I wish I could take pictures like that. :roll: )
You had a fair range of flying conditions on your trip. Different slopes, different winds and you must have clocked up quite some flight times as well Sverrir. The only slope one you didn’t get a chance to fly was the West slope with the dreaded trees behind the landing area. They can make landing,…….er how to say this………..well, they can make landings “Challenging” in strong wind conditions. May be next time?
( http://www.gliderireland.net/forum/viewtopic.php?t=1014&start=30 At 2.04 into the video you’ll see one of our novices trying to land on the west slope in testing conditions. :lol: The pilots’ name is Ger Buckley, from the west of Ireland. I call him a ‘novice’ because he’s only been flying about 30 years :wink: ) (God he’s gonna kick my arse when he next sees me! :( )
So now you’ve flown off the Big L, I suppose we should all make the trip to Iceland and fly off of some of your (unpronounceable) slopes!
Got any models you could loan us? :wink: …………..
Thanks for posting the pictures Sverrir. Look forward to meeting up with you again. :D
Alan_Perse:
Great photos. Wish I had been there.
Navigation
[0] Message Index
[#] Next page
[*] Previous page
Go to full version